Ilyara Dracht

Ilyara Dracht
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Gender	Female
Race	Elezen
Clan	Duskwight
Citizenship	Gridania
Place of Birth	North Sheoud
Guardian	Byregot, The Builder
Nameday	Date 26th Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon (Age: 22)
Marital Status	Single
Occupation	Monk
Pronunciation

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Basic Info

Ilyara Dracht is a Highlander Hyur from The Black Shroud. She is tall and physically fit, with a generally friendly demeanor. She laughs easy and enjoys being around her friends more often than not. She does not put up with people who would dare to disrespect her or her friends, and is thankful for her intimidating size and stature in this regard.

Ilyara wants to see the world and hone her skill in weapons of all types. She began her training as a student of the lance, but it was the way of the fist which she found to be her true calling. Despite her love of martial arts, she wants to become a master of every weapon (although shows little interest in the magical arts). Since visiting Limsa Lominsa for the first time, Ilyara has a particular love of the Sea and hopes to one day sail it in some capacity.

History

Ilyara was born of a Midlander mother and a Highlander father in the North Shroud some twenty-two years prior to the present day. For the first twenty-two years of her life many claimed she looked remarkably like her mother, although she retained many of her father's sharper features. She would later lose a bet with Ko'sato Nunh and as a result would drink a Potion of Fantasia, emerging from her slumber looking much more like her Highlander father.

She grew up in The Black Shroud, not far from Gridania, with both of her parents. She lived a relatively quiet existence for her early years and enjoyed a generally carefree childhood. Her mother worked leather like no other for malms around and her father was a hunter of some renown who had settled down in his later years. As ten years old, her father began to take her on hunting expeditions with him, sometimes for days at a time. It was her first hunting expedition with her father which gave her a taste for adventure and the thrill of battle which would never truly be quenched.

Wanting first to wield the Great-Axe, as her father utilized with precision and ferocity, he instead placed in her hand a lightweight lance as he deemed it would better suit her smaller stature. He told her that a true Highlander warrior is a master of many weapons, and that the thick forests of The Shroud were more suited to the nimbleness of a lance. To further appease her, he told her of the legends of the dragon knights from Ishgard; the Dragoons and their legendary feats. For most of her teenage years she practiced the lance and learned to wield it with some skill. Despite this, she never forgot her desire to wield not just the Great-Axe, but all weapons. She strives to be the best at whatever she should try her hand at.

Ilyara & The Tribe of Ko'sato Nunh

At 18 years of age, Ilyara joined her father for an extended hunting foray of which included two days of venturing into Thanalan. Initially intended to hunt Aldgoat in Eastern Thanalan, her father decided that he would show his daughter the Sagolii Desert where he gained some renown by assisting a Mi’qote tribe in the defense of their people from a Sand Worm attack in his younger days as a glory seeking hunter.

It was in this foray into the Sagolii desert that they happened upon a tribe whom identified themselves as Hipparion. Ilyara’s father recounted to them the tale of his sand worm defense some years ago, and they were allowed to stay with the tribe if only for a day. It was in this time which Ilyara first met K’sato, a Mi’qote boy a few years her junior. As something of the runt of his litter, he was easily goaded into challenging Ilyara to a duel by the larger males of his tribe, claiming that he would never have a chance to earn the privilege of becoming a Nunh if he couldn’t even beat a Hyur girl from the forest.

The duel took place at dusk, Ilyara with her lance having been raised on the hunting of wild animals with her lance, and Sato with his sword, raised in the burning sun of the desert. Ilyara’s larger stature and longer reach gave her an early advantage in the single combat, easily knocking away Sato’s swings before they could come close. Though it was when she had him with his knees to the sand that he truly came out swinging. In a spray of sand and a flurry of of blows, Sato turned the tides in his favour, disarming Ilyara of her lance and driving her back, resting the point of his sword at her throat. Believing he had won, he relaxed his guard for one critical moment and Ilyara was on him like a wild beast, raining a flurry of punches down on the smaller Mi’qote. Sato yielded after taking a savage beating from Ilyara’s fists and she was declared the victor of their duel, much to Sato’s chagrin.

From that point on, Sato and Ilyara ran into one another from time to time and maintained a sibling-like rivalry over the course of several years. When Sato split off to form his own tribe with his tribemate K’Shere, Ilyara began to see much more of the two Mi’qote. Ilyara threw her full support behind Sato’s formation of his tribe and has backed him up against those who would challenge him for control of it.

The duel holds special significance for Ilyara not only because of the start of a friendship with Sato’s Ko tribe, but also as it gave her a true taste of fist fighting, something which she would later become quite passionate about.

Coming to Ul'dah & Hamon Holyfist

At 22, Ilyara finally truly ventured out of The Black Shroud on her own for the first time. She had spent some time gaining renown as a skilled adventurer wielding the lance and was eventually granted an airship pass as a reward for her continued service to Gridania. Her first stop was to visit Ul'dah where she was able to quite quickly connect up with her good friend and rival Ko'sato Nunh. Ilyara began to go on adventures with the Ko tribe whenever possible and enjoyed her freedom for only a few days before she finally met with Master Hamon Holyfist.

Ilyara had a deep desire to learn to fight with her fists properly, and being around Sato more often only quickly exacerbated that desire. It was within three days that Ilyara introduced herself to Holyfist and was promptly accepted into his school of martial arts. She found the way of the fist exhilarating in every way she had imagined. She lived out of the Inn at The Quicksand for some time while she studied under Holyfist. She learned a great deal while under his tutelage, but eventually he had taught her all that he could and she was forced to find another way to continue her training.

Appearance

Height: 6 fulms 1 ilms

Weight: 150 lbs

Complexion:  Tan

Hair:  Pink

Eyes:  Blue

Particular Traits: 

Voice: Loud and Confident

Clothing Style: Comfort and practicality.

Laterality:  Technically Right, although she is almost perfectly ambidextrous.

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• Festival: Starlight Celebration

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